Jon Tester, Martha Roby, and the perils of opposing Trump

Published June 6, 2018 3:38am ET



Minutes after the polls closed Tuesday night, the election was called for Sen. Jon Tester, who had run unopposed in the Democratic primary. It did not take much longer for a conservative group to weigh in on Tester’s opposition to President Trump’s agenda.

“America Rising PAC has been tracking and researching Jon Tester for years to reintroduce his less than moderate record to Montana voters,” the group’s executive director Alexandra Smith said in a statement. “President Trump won the state by 20 points, yet Tester has opposed the Administration at every turn: tax reform, repealing Obamacare, and the Gorsuch Supreme Court nomination.”

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